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Make Every Democratic Senator Filibuster Gorsuch

The number one priority for the resistance movement this coming week must be to use every tactic in the playbook - phone calls, emails, letters, petitions, mass demonstrations at senators' homes and offices, and more - to make clear that every Democrat who votes to...

Trade Is Trump's Biggest Broken Promise

Say anything - literally anything - to sway working-class voters. Get elected, then loot the country. Hey, it worked for this guy. If there was a singular issue Trump campaigned on, it was trade. Everywhere he went, Trump swore the North American Free Trade Agreement...

Calvin, Hobbes & Budgetary Bait-and-Switch

A great old Calvin & Hobbes comic strip tells us a lot about the current budget debate. Calvin asks his mom to let him do a succession of ridiculously dangerous things: First he asks if he can set his mattress on fire; his mom says no. Then he asks if he can ride...

Voters Want Higher Minimum Wages. Why? They Grow Jobs

Last year Maine voters approved an increase in the minimum wage. After this jobs and wages surged. So business groups are trying to do something about it. And not just in Maine. Maine's Job "Surge" Last year voters approved a Maine ballot initiative raising the...

Why Does SEC Chair Piwowar Shield Overpaid CEOs?

  President Donald Trump named Michael Piwowar as acting chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission shortly after his inauguration. Piwowar, one of the SEC’s five commissioners since 2013, quickly flexed his acting chair muscles - on one of the agency’s most...

Roger Wilkins: A Man of Honor for a Tempestuous Time

Roger Wilkins has left us, just after his 85th birthday. A great champion of social justice, proud father and good friend, he will be missed. Born into an educated middle class family, Roger was raised with high expectations. His father, business manager of the Kansas...

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